Review Author MoreTennis
Tournament preview by MoreTennis : Hamburg ATP500 2017 Clay tennis tournament, which is one of the most popular in Germany, classifies as ATP500 level and have 1,499,940 € prize fond and winner gets 323,145 € with 500 points. We can find online results of this tournament from 1995 , but tournament is much more older and very prestigious. Interesting fact about this tournament that he don’t have one winner every year or one or two often winning players, like Halle tournament in Germany(grass) Roger Federer wins it often, here we have a different champion every year. Last year champion Martin Klizan will play here this year too, but it’s very small percent he will defend his title. While qualifying rounds still going, we can say for sure doesn’t matter who will came here from Q round, because all players are very good Delbonis Frederice, Dzumhur Damir or young native player Otte Oscar, for sure all players should be afraid of young home players, they are always dangerous, especially in first round.
First round : It’s going to be very important round for a lot players, but it will be with unexpected winners. First of all let’s talk about players here so No. 1 seeded player is Alberto Ramos-Vinolas [1], after loosing in Bastad QF round too Fernando Verdasco and loosing to much point’s because he couldn’t defend a title there, he will try to play here maximum, especially when clay season it’s going to end and hard season starts, so it’s important for Alberto, because on hard he doesn’t make a lot of points.
Second seeded player is Cuevas Pablo – last year finalist here, but for this year he ain’t playing very good tennis 14/8 statistics on clay, poor result this year. Even bigger problem for Pablo is first round and his opponent Andrey Kuznetsov, who recently improved his game and played very well in last week tournament.
Third seeded player – Karen Kachanov made his warmup in Bastad Sweden clay tournament and will be ready to play here. Other seeded players is very famous and well known David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Paire Benoit with other franceman Simon Gilles and last but not least Diego Swarcman.
Very colourful field this year with a lot youngsters and old folks like : Mayer Florian, Silva Dutra(Who recently won versus Gael Monfils) , Zeballos Horacio, Tommy Haas. Don’t forget young players like Altmaier Daniel, Marterer Maximilian this opportunity to play here for them is very important, so for sure they will try to show best tennis and don’t forget it often very hard to compete for older players versus young players, many surprises can be seen in this tournament first rounds.
First round starts tomorrow, players in first round get’s 11,105 €, but no ranking points so it worth too fight for second round. 12 Matches awaits in Monday fights, many will be happy with the wins, other not so, but good luck for players and for viewers.
